State v. Garcia

BARNEY, Presiding Judge.

Following a bench trial, Helario Beltran Garcia (Defendant) was convicted of drug trafficking in the second degree in violation of § 195.223, RSMo 1994. Defendant contends on appeal that his Motion to Suppress should have been granted because the consent to search his vehicle was not freely and voluntarily given as Defendant could not communicate in English well enough to give his consent. Additionally, Defendant asserts that even if he did consent to the search, he revoked that consent before the cocaine was discovered. Examination of the record shows that these…